Assembling mechanism of typographical composing machines



March 31, 1936. v. c. J, HARRISON 2,035,807

ASSEMBLING MECHANISM OF TYPOGRAPHICAL COMP-USING MACHINES Filed Aug. 1, 19:55 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 AWE/V7012 March 31, 1936. v Q J HARRISON 2,035,807

ASSEMBLING MECHANISM OF TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING MACHINES Filed Aug. 1, l955 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 f RF Patented Mar. 31, 1936 I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ASSEMBLING MECHANISM OF TYPO- GRAPHICAL COMPOSING MACHINES Vernon Charles Joseph Harrison, Timperley, England, assignor to Linotype and Machinery Limited, London, England, a limited liability company of Great Britain Application August 1, 1935, Serial No. 34,123 In Great Britain August 10, 1934 6 Claims. (01. 199-27) This invention relates to typographical comfingers l, 8. Ordinarily, a pair of matrix reposing machines such as those known commertaining pawls, such as the pawl I shown in cially under the registered trade-mark Lino- Figure 2, are arranged to engage behind the type, wherein matrices, released individually ears of the matrices as they enter the assemfrom a magazine in order of composition, are bler elevator I, and serve also to retain the 5 assembled in line, and the line of composed last composed matrix in position during the matrices transferred to the casting mechanism. upward movement of the elevator I.

In machines of this kind, the matrices, on re- As stated above, however, when a display malease from the magazine, are received in the sotrix I2 is assembled at the end of a line, its

called assembler elevator provided with rails on ears I3 are located so far within the channel 10 which the matrices are supported by their pro- I 4 of the assembler elevator I that the retainjecting ears and with matrix retaining pawls ing pawls as heretofore constructed can no which engage behind the ears of the matrices longer serve the last-mentioned purpose, and the as they enter the assembler elevator. These represent invention provides means for preventing taining pawls normally serve to prevent disdisplacement of such a matrix regardless of the 15 placement of the last composed matrix of the position of its ears. line during the movement of the assembler ele- According to the constructional form of the vator in known manner from the assembling invention illustrated, the matrix retaining pawl position to the line transfer position, as the I5 in the rear wall I 6 of the assembler elevator matrix ears lie approximately flush with the I is formed at its inner end with a rearwardly 20 following edge of the matrix and remain in extending arm I I which passes through and engagement with the shoulders of the pawls projects rearwardly beyond a slot I8 in the said until the line of matrices is moved along the rear wall IS. The pawl is adapted to rock about a emb C n y the line a sfer fingers. a vertical pivot I9 on the wall I6, preferably In the case of thick or display matrices, hownear the inner end of said arm IT, and is held 25 ever, the matrix ears may be located so far in in normal position for engaging successive matadvance of the following edge of the matrix that rices as they enter the assembler by a spring 20, they are not supported by the retaining pawls which holds the outer end of the rearwardly during the movement of the assembler elevator. extending arm I1 against a stop 2I secured,

According t t t Ofl h s difliculty is preferably adjustably, to the front plate 6 of the 30 avoided by providing a form of pawl which will machine frame, at the rear of the assembler eleautomatically move inwardly into engagement vator I. This stop 2| has an inclined edge 22 with an ea o the las omposed matrix of the which engages the pawl arm I! and permits the line, irrespective of the position of that ear pawl I5 to move inwardly under the action of relatively to the following edge if the matrix. its spring as the elevator I is moved upwardly 35 One constructional form of the invention is away from th assembling position The Iongjillustrated in the accompanying drawings, i tudinal arm 23 of the pawl I5 is thus held in Whlchiengagement with the rear ear I3 of the last Figure 1 is a from? elevation, Part1y brken composed matrix of the line during the moveaway, of an assembling mechanism with the Saiid constructional form of the invention assembling position and is returned to the norplied thereto, and

Figure 2 is a plan View of the parts Shown mal position by the cam action of the inclined in Figure 1 edge 22 of the stop 2I as the assembler elevator I' The assembling mechanism illustrated in the is returned to the assembling position. The slot 45 drawings is of known form, comprising an I8 in the assembler elevator rear wall I6 111 sembler elevator I in which matrices, released which the rearwardly extending arm of the from the magazine (not shown) in order of pawl is accommodated: has rearward-1y composition are stacked in line by a rotating verging walls to p t o e p vo a movement star wheel 2, against the face of a line resistant of the pawl, and the wall 24 of the said slot I8 50 finger 3. When a complete lines has been asserves as a stop to limit the inward movement sembled in the elevator I, the elevator is moved of the pawl I5. upwardly between guides 4, 5 on the fixed By the above-described arrangements, display front plate 6 of the machine, to be transferred matrices such as I2 are adequately supported to the casting mechanism by the line transfer during the upward movement of the elevator I, 55

ment of the assembler elevator I away from the 40 and the normal operation of the pawl I5 during the assembly of the line remains unaffected.

It will be understood that the constructional form of the apparatus herein described and illustrated has been chosen merely as a convenient example, and that modifications in the form of the parts may be made without departing from the invention.

Having described my invention, I declare that what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:-

1. In a typographical line composing machine, the combination of an assembler having a channel wherein matrices are composed in line, the said assembler being movable from line receiving to line delivering positions, a matrix retaining pawl adapted to engage an ear of a matrix at the entrance end of the channel when the assembler is in the line receiving position, and means adapted automatically to move the pawl inwardly transversely of the channel during the movement of the assembler from line receiving to line delivery position, into engagement with a matrix ear located in advance of the said entrance end.

2. In a typographical line composing machine, the combination of an assembler having a channel wherein matrices are composed in line, the said assembler being movable from line receiving to line delivering positions, a matrix retaining pawl adapted to engage an ear of a matrix at the entrance end of the channel when the assembler is in the line receiving position, and means adapted automatically to move the pawl inwardly and outwardly transversely of the channel during the movements of the assembler respectively away from and towards its line receiving position.

3. In a typographical line composing machine, the combination of an assembler having front and rear walls forming between them a channel in which matrices are composed in line, said assembler being movable from line receiving to line delivering position, a matrix retaining pawl pivoted in the assembler rear wall and normally urged inwardly into the said channel, an arm on the pawl passing through and projecting rearwardly beyond said rear wall, and a cam member adapted to engage said rearwardly projecting arm whereby the pawl is permitted to move inwardly transversely of the channel and positively moved outwardly during the respective movements of the assembler from and to its line receiving position.

4. In a typographical line composing machine, the combination of an assembler having front and rear walls forming between them a channel in which matrices are composed in line, said assembler being movable from line receiving to line delivering position, a matrix retaining pawl comprising a pawl arm extending longitudinally of the said rear wall and a second arm passing through and extending beyond a slot in the said rear wall, a pivot for the said pawl located near the inner end of the said second arm, a spring normally tending to project the pawl arm inwardly transversely of the channel, and a stop adapted to engage the outer end of the said second arm to limit the inward movement of the pawl arm to definite extents appropriate respectively to the line receiving position and line delivering position of the assembler.

5. In a typographical composing machine, a combination according to claim 4, wherein the slot accommodating the rearwardly projecting arm of the matrix retaining pawl ,is formed with rearwardly diverging walls, one of which walls serves as a stop for the inward movement of the pawl arm in the line delivery position.

6. In a typographical line composing machine, the combination of an assembler movable vertically between line receiving and line delivering positions and having front and rear walls forming between them a channel in which matrices are composed in line, a fixed machine frame member at the rear of the assembler carrying guides for the vertical movement of the assembler, a matrix retaining pawl comprising a pawl arm extending longitudinally of the assembler rear wall and a second arm passing through and extending beyond a slot in the said rear wall, a pivot for the pawl located near the inner end of said second arm, a spring normally tending to project the pawl arm inwardly into the channel, and a stop adjustably secured to the said machine frame member, said stop having an inclined edge adapted to engage the outer end of the said second arm.

VERNON CHARLES JOSEPH HARRISON. 

